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Nick Bilton @nickbilton
RT @CNBCnow: BREAKING: Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to more than 11 years in prison https://t.co/g7K7281BjS — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
@ethank @flyosity Now that is an entirely possible scenario. đź’¸ — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
@flyosity That’s a tad hyperbolic to say the site goes offline forever. People are forgetting that 100k tech workers were laid off this year (34k in Nov alone!), and they are looking for jobs. Maybe there are rolling brownouts to come, but Twitter is not dying. Ever. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
Twitter employees used to joke: “Twitter is the company that can’t kill itself.” Everyone speculating Twitter might die now, it’s not happening. It’s like the jellyfish “Turritopsis dohrnii” which is 'biologically immortal.’ This chaos is just part of its DNA & how it thrives. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
In journalism we write obituaries for important people so we can publish them the moment they die. Part of me is wondering if we should start doing this for tech companies now, too. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
Looks like this little guy is about to come out of retirement. https://t.co/kPZQZ8Vkim — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
(Last note: One possible solution to the Blue Check Marks For All is to make a system where people are verified as being who they say they are, and when they get a blue badge they can no longer change their account name... but that would cost a lot more than $8 to implement.) — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
There is without question a business in handing out blue check marks, but doing so without the verification part, negates 14 years of a symbol that, for better and worse, said someone or something was "real," and not a parody or fake. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
Anyway, where Twitter screwed up, was that over time being verified became a form of online feudalism, where there were the Check Mark People, and those rest of surfs who couldn't get verified. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
(Fun aside: the fake accounts actually ended up luring the *real* celebs to Twitter. Someone started a fake Shaq account, and when real Shaq heard about it, he signed up as @the_real_shaq. This also led to lots of famous people putting "Real" in their username — ahem, Donald.) — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
"We’ll be experimenting with a beta preview of what we’re calling Verified Accounts this summer," @Biz wrote in 2009. "The experiment will begin with public officials, public agencies, famous artists, athletes, and other well known individuals at risk of impersonation." — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
...and while he settled, that's when Twitter didn't have much of a choice but to roll out Blue Check Marks, or "Verified Accounts Beta," as it was called at the time. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
In 2009 it became kind of an epidemic, if you will, on Twitter. There was a fake Kanye (Ye was not happy about it!) and then there was a fake Tony La Russa (the St. Louis Cardinals manager) and he was so pissed he decided to sue Twitter... — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
There was @DarthVader and @God and countless others — and they were amazing. It didn't take long before the fun accounts became parody fake accounts of real people. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
A short thread about Blue Check Marks. In the early days of Twitter, waaaaaaaay before the celebs and the crypto bros and the pundithinkfluencers were on here, part of the fun of the platform was the fake accounts. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
This tweet is worth every penny of the $44 billion. — PolitiTweet.org
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Nick Bilton @nickbilton
RT @dieworkwear: https://t.co/RMtdnxrPjm — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
@LisaWritesBooks To quote Elon: "🤣" — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
If I had $8 for every time someone has asked me if I'm doing a sequel to "Hatching Twitter" (I'm not!), I'd be on some sort of Forbes rich person list. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
@ltm “The Clown Car Drove OUT of the Goldmine” — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
RT @ashleevance: In a cost saving move, HBO has announced that the next season of Succession will be made with seven Nest cams installed at… — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
@ashleevance I just legitimately LOLed. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
And… scene! https://t.co/bt7VoRNgTp — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
RT @chancery_daily: and that's a wrap for this episode https://t.co/pOOXgGMNLD — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
Most companies see CEO turnover once every 7 to 15 years. Twitter has now had three different CEOs in the past three years. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
RT @CNBC: Elon Musk now in charge of Twitter, CEO and CFO have left, sources say https://t.co/z0hLc8DrDO — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
RT @TB_Times: Attorney who fought Florida helmet laws died in motorcycle crash while not wearing one https://t.co/B9nK7ygNOG — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
This is a wild thread. — PolitiTweet.org
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg
THREAD: In @SenatorLeahy's new memoir, there's a wild story in it that I haven't ever seen before—a rare glimpse in… https://t.co/0DaCmg47hE
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
@christylemire That shot in 1917 wasn’t CGI, it was a real tracking shot, done in one take, with real explosives (he even fell by accident and kept running). https://t.co/osBvS5DwhE — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Bilton @nickbilton
RT @mlcalderone: You’ve got questions about the Elon Musk-Twitter saga? @nickbilton has answers (and some questions himself): https://t.co/… — PolitiTweet.org
